Consecrated to serve

The Church celebrates the Day of Consecrated Life on February 2nd. To better experience this day, starting on the 26th, the week challenges consecrated persons and all Christians to walk with the motto "Consecrated to serve".https://cirp.pt/site/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SemanaConsagrado2026_Video.mp4

Inspired by St. Gaspar del Bufalo and St. Mary of Matthias, the consecrated men and women of the Most Precious Blood are in the world at the service of the Church, attentive to the voice of the poorest who cry out for fullness of life. This is the case in Portugal, Spain and Guinea-Bissau, in the case of the Iberian Province CPPS: the charism is loving service, with the laity, young people and children, with the sick, with the poor or with anyone who knocks on our door because we are communities with open doors.

In the year dedicated to consecrated life, the late Pope Francis challenged consecrated persons to look to the past with gratitude, to live the present with passion, and to embrace the future with hope.

More recently, Pope Leo XIV, in his homily on the Jubilee Day of Consecrated Life, pointed out three dimensions that consecrated persons should take into account:

The gratuitous nature of vocation"We are all here because, first and foremost, He desired us and chose us from all eternity."“

God is fullness and gives meaning to the life of the consecrated person: “"For you, for us, the Lord is everything, being so in various ways: as Creator and source of existence, as love that calls and challenges, as a force that impels and animates us to self-giving.".

Consecrated persons have a central mission in the Church."The Church entrusts you with the task of being, through your self-denial, living witnesses to the primacy of God in your lives, helping in the best way possible also the brothers and sisters you meet to cultivate a similar friendship."“

It is important to bear in mind that all Christians are consecrated through Baptism, that is, called and challenged to live the values of the Gospel, thus sanctifying their lives in Christ Jesus, the only Savior of the world.

Let us pray that every man and woman may seek perfection for their lives in Christ.

(Father Luís Filipe)